Testimonials
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Executive coaching and consulting clients
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Life coaching and consulting clients
Executive Coaching and Consulting Testimonials
“Sande and I worked together over a long period of time...She is a most unusual leader who embodies practical wisdom in the way she leads others. I learned a great deal from her, including how to trust myself more fully, how to take risks that before would have been impossible, and how to deal with staff up and down my line more effectively and patiently. She was born for coaching...instilling new possibilities in others and helping them map a way to achieve things that they would have thought impossible before working with her. She ‘walks her talk’ so that you get a model and mentor as well as a coach when you hire her...I never left a conversation without something powerful to put in my pocket that would make me a stronger manager.”
~ Ellen M. Wilbur, MA – Executive Director, The Duke MBA–Weekend Executive, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
"Sande coached me at a time in my career when I was faced with a major set of decisions about the future. I wanted to make decisions that were outside my normal and usual comfort zone and to consider a variety of factors that I knew I could not decipher without the help of a talented thinking partner. Sande got to know me, my style of thinking and the many ways I fool myself – almost by the end of our first coaching conversation. The combination of support, structure and stretching-goals she offered were invaluable. Hire her to grow your choices and boldness!"
~ Timothy Williams, MBA– Executive VP for Global Security, Nortel Networks
“Sande and I worked together during a period of rapid change and transition in my research center. She served as my thinking partner, helping me see more clearly the choices in front of me and reflecting on problems and opportunities in a more creative way. Sande’s supportive, low key and open approach allowed me to reflect on options and learn more about my own management style and how to make it work better in my setting. Her own experience in an academic world allowed her to understand that environment in a way that was particularly useful. This was my first experience working with a professional coach. I rapidly came to wonder why I hadn’t found someone like her sooner! Coaching has become a critical piece of my continuing professional development.”
~ Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD – Director, Injury Prevention Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Sande has courage, boldness and an inventive mind that has stretched me beyond complacency and previously held assumptions. I have been able to step down from a position of recognized authority in order to give myself space, time and creative energy to more clearly define my vocation. This has allowed me to honor my deepest sense of justice and peace and begin the process of aligning my values, talents and future possibilities. I cannot recommend coaching with Sande highly enough – give yourself choices you never dreamed of!”
~ Lee Limbird, PhD – former Associate Vice Chancellor for Research,Vanderbilt University Medical School
“Sande helped us define and design a team challenge and leader coaching event to spear-head our Global Team Leadership effort. I was in charge of that process and hoped to initiate coaching skills that all 25 of our teams could carry forward. Not only did Sande design and deliver three wonderful models for this event, she coached me and my team leaders so effectively on communication, inspiration and sustainable goal-setting that we have, even today (4 years later), her to thank for the level of trust and high level of communication present in our unit. Beyond ordinary team leadership, Sande helped us really zero in our why we care, what we care about, and how to be trutful with each other.”
~ Jay Nali, MBA – Executive VP for Global Markets, IBM
“We hired Sande to help us turn around performance on one of our key managers. She did that, in spades. And, more than that, she came to a key meeting and delivered a wonderful presentation on cultural change in the time of mergers and acquisitions... Our managers learned a great deal about the larger issues of cultural integration. I valued her willingness to have coaching conversations with me and to field proposals from several other training programs – evaluating them in light of their leadership possibilites for our new company... She is intuitive, practical and extremely professional in the delivery of her consulting.”
~ Laura Amundsen – Associate Director Human Resources, UCB-Pharma
“Sande has a perfect coaching blend. She's a crack-shot catching through analysis how I've been limiting myself. She's opened my heart, mind and soul to options I never knew existed. She's helped me unwrap the gift of seeing myself in a spectacular new way. Her practical money coaching has guided me through the financial maze I've created for decades. Her playful use of words and analogy has made sense of my world. Best of all, with her aid, I've built a bridge across a chasm of self-doubt, unfulfilled longings, and scattered career attempts. This bridge has built all kinds of personal and career success in my life. I see more triumphs and growth on the horizon, rather than fear and hopelessness.”
~ Susie Wilde – Writer, Teacher and Solopreneur
“Upon first talking with Sande; in responding to her lines of questioning; discussing my values, my goals, successes, failures, and aspirations, and by completing her diagnostic assignments, Sande quickly put me at ease. She established a rapport and confidence whereby I felt I was in very good hands with her consult. Sande is highly intuitive, well-spoken, organized, encouraging, and thorough in her discipline. With her guidance, we've set the bar for our efforts high, and Sande keeps it there; helping me prioritize, and allowing me to distinguish which of my efforts and goals are essential in the short-, medium-, and long-term.”
~ Brett Cartwright – Small Business CEO
“From our work together, I began to see myself differently and came to see my life possibilities as stages of growth rather than having an all or nothing perspective. This perspective allowed me to be kinder to myself without always having to 'be right' or to prove myself adequate in my various roles.”
~ Deborah Eaker Rich – Professor and Education Consultant
“Sande encouraged me to ask deep questions and to scrutinize my values and needs . It was startling to discover what these actually were – rather than what I assumed they were. The process took time and Sande continued to nudge me to go deeper until I got to the true truth. We also worked a lot with boundaries (setting them clearly, both professionally and personally). Other areas of focus included maintaining high standards for myself professionally and personally. I was able to move into new, uncharted territory-both in my career and in my personal life.”
~ Carol Henderson – Writer, Publisher, Executive Director
